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Does anyone have a photo of the AEKKEA-RAAB R-29? It was an indiginously made Greek fighter made in 1936. I would assume that someone, somewhere, has to have it, and I was hoping that one of you would either have seen a photo, a sketch, or have access to some kind of idea of what it may have...

What's with the differences in design between American aircraft carriers and European carriers during WWII? I was just researching American carriers vs. British carriers and plans for carriers by the Nazis and French, and I noticed that the American carriers have sometimes up to 10,000 tons...

Men of no Peace We all know how warlike humans can be. Every day, someone wakes up to the sound of gunfire and screaming shells somewhere. We've gone through two World Wars, a Cold War, and countless regional wars, proxy wars, religious wars, territorial wars, and wars for all kinds of...

So I discovered today that Greece had an indigenous aircraft manufacturing company prior to WWII (AEKKEA-RAAB). What's more interesting is that it was founded by a German who had fled Nazi Germany due to his anti-Nazi stance. Had his aircraft designs gained recognition, how would this have...

I was recently reading about how, on the eve of WWII, all of the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) were in the middle of developing their own aircraft. I thought this was particularly interesting. Theoretically, say that the Soviets (for whatever reasons) doesn't occupy the Baltic...

I read this line in a Wikipedia article recently: "Before World War II, from 1933 to 1936, the Portuguese Navy underwent a profound reorganization, launching a vast naval program and acquiring a total of 22 new warships, including destroyers, submarines and avisos (frigates). An aircraft...